1000 Day Writing Plan Day 270, Tuesday.
Wake up at five o'clock, the morning light is still there, leaning against the sun's shoulders, accompanied by the music's frequency modulation, lying in the clouds, waving lightly, awakening the energy of the body.
Have you ever had any fear?
I think no one in this world hasn’t felt fear. Fear can be said to be the source of all negative emotions in a person.
Western philosophy has a famous "Pascal thought experiment":
Put a wooden board wide enough to put on the ground, and you run from one end to the other, your feet will not touch the ground, and you will pass easily. But if you put this wooden board between two cliffs, almost no one dares to go over, and you won’t even dare to move it over, and you will feel that you may fall into the abyss at any time.
This experiment shows that human reason is very powerless in the face of emotions - reason has clearly told you that "there is no danger at all, and it is impossible to fall when running on it", but why do we dare not even move slowly?
Because the "power of fear" is not only great, but also omnipresent.
From " Evolution ", we know that everything in humans, whether it is an organ, cognitive ability or emotion, is a means of survival, and "fear" is also equivalent to a kind of equipment and a tool, implanted into our hearts to protect. When we face danger, we will not be ignorant or insensitive.
However, any tool is abused, and once fear is abused, many emotions will be derived, such as jealousy, depression, anger, greed, etc. These emotions will distort our cognition and cause the entire cognition to collapse. status.
I remember that in the two years I just graduated from university, I fell into this distorted cognition. The whole experience of my life was shrouded in fear. There was even a period of time when similar dreams frequently appeared and I woke up sweating profusely. , anything beyond the comfort zone, I am afraid of escaping.
And when "fear" becomes more and more the main theme of your survival, we should actually realize that cognition has been infected with the virus.
Our fear is caused by our original cognition, so our original cognition cannot drive away this fear.
It is said that the master of mind learning Wang Yangming has a story that expels fear: his life is magnificent and suffering. Once, in extreme despair, he saw his son and followers with his own eyes. In a day, all three of them died. He imagined that One day I might die so suddenly.
In this case, Wang Yangming lay in a sarcophagus and thought, "What would it be if I died at this moment?"
So in the stone coffin, Wang Yangming suddenly realized: Nothing is terrible.
When "fear is not scary" and enters extreme despair, he is no longer afraid of anything. I also suddenly realized that he didn't need anything from the outside to give him a shot of his heart to support himself.
The famous saying "I am self-sufficient, why don't I wait for external seeking" comes out - everything is possessed, and I don't want anything.
This story tells us that if you don’t enter a scene of extreme despair, you may never be able to drive away this cognition, and you will never be able to drive away the fear of you.
is just like the life-like language we speak, at worst it is nothing - at worst it is death. In the words of philosopher Heidegger , it is "going to death first" - if you go to the worst situation first, you will find that it is just that, and everything will be calm.
So, when you are afraid, it is better to immerse yourself in it. What you fear may be an illusion. When you really fall to that valley, the fear will naturally disappear.
